Obituary Notices by Alden Green; P. B. Keyes

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1867

Obituary Notices.

By Alden Green; P. B. Keyes

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

DIED, in Gilsum, N. H., Oct. 15, 1867, of consumption, my dear wife, Lydia P. Green, aged 29 years, 11 months, and 12 days.

I am now left alone with a daughter of eleven years, to mourn our loss. It being impossible to obtain a minister of our faith, as we much desired, Mr. Wood the Congregational minister of this place, preached the funeral sermon, from the words, “I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.” Ps. xvii, 19. We were assured by the numerous attendance, and many tears that were mingled with ours in taking leave of the departed, that we were not without kind, sympathizing friends.

My companion longed for rest; but was constantly fearful, lest she should cherish a murmuring or impatient spirit. And when assured that she was considered very patient, she remarked, It is the blessing of God, and not in me.

Sleep on, loved one, now sweetly rest; Thy pain and sufferings all are o’er, And soon, if faithful, with the blessed, We’ll meet thee on the happy shore. No sin, no pain, no wasted forms; ’Twill all be health and glory there; Oh! blessed hope; dear Saviour, come; We long thy gracious boon to share.

ALDEN GREEN. Gilsum, N. H.

DIED, in Addison, Mich., Oct. 4, 1867, my mother, Polly Keyes, aged 71 years, 2 months, and 18 days. She has been a subscriber for the Review for a number of years, and it was an agreeable visitor to her; for she was glad to know what the Lord was doing for his people.

P. B. KEYES.